Margaret Harrington

Female25 August 1946–5 September 2011

Brief Life History of Margaret

Margaret Harrington was born on 25 August 1946, in Cork, County Cork, Ireland as the daughter of Denis Harrington and Joan Fitzgerald. She died on 5 September 2011, in her hometown, at the age of 65.

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Mr Michael McSweeney
1947–2014
Margaret Harrington
1946–2011

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    World Events (7)

    1949

    Age 3

    On Easter Monday, the anniversary of the 1916 uprising, Eire becomes the Republic of Ireland. Ireland leaves the British Commonwealth.

    1951

    Age 5

    IRA campaign in Northern Ireland.

    1969

    Age 23

    British troops sent to Derry.

    Name Meaning

    English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .

    Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.

    Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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